Flashcards: Postwar Geopolitics and Cold War Dynamics — 17 cards

Geopolitics — definition?

Study of how geography shapes international relations.

Power — definition?

Capacity to act or influence others.

Distribution of power — role?

Shapes world order and outcomes.

Soft power — meaning?

Influence through attraction and diplomacy.

Yalta Conference — purpose?

Coordinate postwar Europe and UN creation.

Potsdam Conference — focus?

Manage Germany and plan Japan war.

Four occupation zones — in Germany?

Divided Germany into four Allied areas.

Berlin blockade — date?

24 June 1948 to 1 May 1949.

Berlin Airlift — response?

Western supply operation by air.

NATO — founding date?

4 April 1949.

Marshall Plan — aid amount?

$17 billion (1948-1952).

Soviet response to Marshall?

Pressure on Eastern Europe, create COMINFORM.

China’s nuclear test — date?

16 October 1964.

Great Leap Forward — years?

1958 to 1962.

Cultural Revolution — start?

1966.

NSC-68 — main conclusion?

Rearmament needed to counter Soviet nuclear parity.

9/11 attack — date?

11 September 2001.